02604nam 2200565Ia 450 991077827300332120230721031932.00-8166-5419-0(CKB)1000000000481114(EBL)322591(OCoLC)476120169(SSID)ssj0000097506(PQKBManifestationID)11130864(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000097506(PQKBWorkID)10115464(PQKB)11082560(MiAaPQ)EBC322591(OCoLC)182776737(MdBmJHUP)muse38788(Au-PeEL)EBL322591(CaPaEBR)ebr10202559(CaONFJC)MIL525681(EXLCZ)99100000000048111420061017d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAdorno in America[electronic resource] /David JenemannMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4809-3 0-8166-4808-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: DREAMS IN AMERICA; 1. THE MONSTER UNDER THE STONE: ADORNO AND THE RISE OF ADMINISTRATIVE RESEARCH; 2. ADORNO IN SPONSOR-LAND: AUTHORITY ON THE RADIO; 3. BELOW THE SURFACE: FRANKFURT GOES TO HOLLYWOOD; 4. "IF THERE SHOULD BE A POSTERITY": HIGH MODERNISM, HOROSCOPES, AND HEROIC SALESMEN; CODA: THEODOR ADORNO, AMERICAN; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEXThe German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno was one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and between 1938 and 1953 he lived in exile in the United States. In the first in-depth account of this period of Adorno's life, David Jenemann examines Adorno's confrontation with the burgeoning American "culture industry" and casts new light on Adorno's writings about the mass media. Contrary to the widely held belief-even among his defenders-that Adorno was disconnected from America and disdained its culture, Jenemann reveals that Adorno was an active and engagPopular cultureUnited StatesGermanyIntellectual life20th centuryPopular culture193Jenemann David1971-1490149MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778273003321Adorno in America3711331UNINA